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CERN Science Gateway
Glass-tubed science campus with exhibits mirroring the Large Hadron Collider's underground curve.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the CERN Science Gateway in Geneva starts with what you can't see: the Large Hadron Collider circling in near-total darkness a hundred metres below your feet. It follows architect Renzo Piano's decision to give sealed-off research a public face, echoing the collider's own curve in two glass tubes suspended over the road, and what CERN's director general said the building is really for. You'll hear who paid the roughly one hundred million Swiss francs behind it, and why none of that money was public. Step into the nearest tube to walk past real slices of a particle detector.
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